Something's Up With NBA Live 13

EA Sports said NBA Live will not release in early October as expected, giving basketball rival NBA 2K13 the October 2 date all to itself. The publisher released a new trailer this afternoon highlighting some gameplay. "We’ve been working hard on the game, and so we’re excited to share our first in-game trailer today," EA Sports said.

An EA Sports representative was unable to say whether or not NBA Live 13 is releasing in October as originally planned. "Many fans have been anticipating an early October launch, but our plan is to release at a later date. We will share more information in the future."

In 2010, EA Sports canceled NBA Elite 11 and decided to take an extra year of development time when the team in Canada shifted to EA Tiburon.

EA thinks anyone is going to be stupid enough to pay $60 bucks for this crap when 2k13 is such a polished diamond? Add JayZ and the Dream Team fantasy matchup that 2k13 has and this is a no brainer all day.

I don't know if they'll ever be able to make up for all the ground they've lost with Live. 2K continues to find ways to innovate despite being the clear number one at this point.

I remember watching a demo of the Heat/Thunder, and the animations looked awful. I'm guessing they're making it a $20 downloadable game to try to get people to look at it as the cheaper alternative, but I'm afraid people will only find themselves getting what they paid for: a crappy alternative to the 2K series.

So EA should probably just give up on an NBA game right? How many development teams do you hand it off to before you have something that works and is fun? Why announce a basketball game only to never release it?